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...expedite matters Chairman Doughton last week personally undertook to weed out and allot time to those representatives of the tax-paying public who wanted to air their views before the Ways & Means Committee. Growled Republican Committeeman Allen Treadway of Massachusetts: "Any attempt to prevent the general public being heard to the fullest extent is certain to meet with severe condemnation." But the hearings went ahead with one main objective: to report a tax bill to the House by April...
...Supreme Court's sentence of death on NRA. But already miners and operators alike had begun to seek a new savior. They had picked the bill of Pennsylvania's Senator Joseph F. Guffey to declare bituminous coal a public utility; to set up a Federal Commission to allot coal production; to establish 21 regional marketing agreements to maintain minimum prices, wage and hour schedules for labor; to appropriate $300,000,000 to do these things and to buy up submarginal coal lands; to impose a tax of 3? to 9? a ton on coal...
...wish that each and every high school student in the land could see it, especially the munitions and Huey Long sequences and I shall certainly see that they are urged to do so in the next issue of Scholastic. It also occurs to me that Scholastic should definitely allot space to the March of Time, that we should not lose this opportunity to heartily recommend this exceptionally clear-sighted sizing up of what's going on in this world to the youth of the land...
...necessary antagonism exists between the tutorial and course systems. Yet in the present state, warfare is continuous and bitter. Every student must allot his time between the two. On the one side, there is the intellectual stimulus of a tutor, the joy in work for its own sake, and the risk of being fired from the benefits of college because of neglect of courses. On the side of the course system, there is the lure of honors for the bright and hard-working, perhaps a scholarship; for the slow, the assurance that he will remain in the academic folds until...
...Anyone who thinks that the Government is going to underwrite the strike had best get it out of his head. . . . There was a rumor that got back to me that I was going to allot money to the unions for strike relief. ... In the last 15 months appropriations made because of strikes, in excess of our regular grants, have been almost negligible. The facts of this are illustrated in the recent California strike, where we have evidence that the number of strikers who applied for relief was only...